Awwwww… Jim Lee finished the most recent issue of Justice League #5 just before his new child was born, and while his wife Carla was rather heavily pregnant. He’s written that the new arrival held out until he’d finished his deadline, which was appreciated by all, I’m sure. But what tribute could Jim Lee make…
We know from the publicity that DC Vertigo are publishing graphic novel adaptaions of the Millenium Trilogy, with Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco adapting the first book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into two parts. And in April they’ll be publishing a free teaser of the first graphic novel. But Bleeding Cool (alone it…
Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article on how Marvel were looking to get certain creators out of their exclusive deals with Marvel, in an attempt to save money. And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of…
Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012. But did they miss the headline story? Or is it a case of one side of DC not knowing what the other is doing? Because in May 2012, as part of the New 52 Cover Girls Of The DC Universe,…
Bleeding Cool was the first place to tell you about Dark Reign: The List and now we have a few more covers for the October shipping titles, of this non-event event. Dark Reign: The List – Nick Fury by Jonathan Hickman and Ed Guinness. Norman Osborn needs Fury to uncover a leak. Odds are a…
Every Monday at around 6pm in the UK, 10am on the West Coast, 1pm on the East Coast, Lying In The Gutters will bring you roundup of the week on Bleeding Cool and a few other odds and sods. Warren Ellis kicked off the week with his ruminations on art styles, and musical tastes. The…
Carl Jansson and Molly Isaac. The love that dare not speak its name. Long distance online, never-met-face-to-face love. Carl is coming to San Diego Comic Con. And Molly really wants to. But Molly is in Idaho. And because, as she puts it, she is a “photographer, comic book fiend, postcard addict, graphic designer, cosplayer, video…
Bleeding Cool has already reported on the new Surrogates prequel volume from Top Shelf coming out this San Diego, as well as the compilation hardcover of both books just in time for the Bruce Willis movie to hit theaters. But I understand that Surrogates comic creator Robert Venditti has something else to talk about at…
Agents Of Atlas is one of those highly-critically-acclaimed comics that never seems to translate positive reviews into sales figures. Well, let’s see if a crossover with an overblown media hype machine will do the trick. In October, the first of a two-parter crossover, X-Men vs Agents Of Atlas is published by Marvel. Created by Agents…
Really. This is the cover to Strange Tales MAX #2, the anthology series of alternative comic creators working on Marvel’s big names, including the much-awaited Peter Bagge comic The Incorrigible Hulk. And while this cover image has been around since 2003… This variant cover has not. Awww, isn’t it poignant? Hulk Make Major Philosophical Point!…
He’s never been away. Towards the end of the Lying In The Gutters column, I ran a collection of posts that Dwayne McDuffie had posted on the DC Comics message board over nine months, an honest, self depracatory, troubled look at his time on the JLA comic book. And as a result of that honesty,…
Bryan Talbot received an honorary Doctorate Of Arts at Sunderland University this weekend, the first such doctorate granted to a comics artist. Regarding the Spider-Man Broadway musical, Turn Off The Dark, Bono told the BBC that that the show will feature a “new” villain, but that she had appeared once in the Spider-Man comics. Yup…
Available at San Diego Comic Con this week, from Preview Night are 7500 free copies of Absolution #0, the first issue of the new Christos Gage series from Avatar. That’s free as in actually free. One per person though, so if you want more than one, come back dressed as a Wookie. Copies will be…
“The most important thing is I want people to see the work that I do” – Josh Hoopes. If you are commissioning or thinking of commissioning work from one Joseph Jenkins, think again. Bleeding Cool and Lying In the Gutters before it have run a number of articles on the notorious comics industry scam artist…
Congratulations to Udon Entertainment. Best known in our kind of circles for their Street Fighter comic books that were all the rage a couple of years ago, their Darkstalkers Tribute volume, featuring art by the likes of Adam Hughes and J Scott Campbell just had the privilage of being the best selling foreign language book…
Rich Patterson writes; I’m been trying to get comics or a refund from [Company Withdrawn].com since February. This was my first order with the company. You ordered five comics which, with shipping came to over $70, and paid with PayPal. A month later you were told that some of the comics weren’t available, but you…
Below you’ll see a photo of a poster, hanging on a bus shelter. It was taken by Little Bleeder Ian, who wondered: I don’t know if this is genuine viral marketing or just a bunch of students. You can see a #believeinsherlock hashtag on the bottom right hand corner. I went to Twitter and searched…
The above is a commission by Frank Miller, recreating the splash page from The Dark Knight, below, for one Felix Lu. Such a detailed commission from Miller, it would be quite a rarity these days and rather expensive. Albeit not quite as expensive as buying the original art, recently selling for almost half a million…
Here’s an orderly and dependable plot blurb for The Amazing Spider-Man, as issued by Sony and piling up across the net (and in my inbox) like wildfire right now. There may not be any bombshells in here, but the strands come together pretty clearly. You know – like a web. The Amazing Spider-Man is the…
The last time I remember reading a Legend Of Zelda comic was back in the nineties, from Valiant Comics before they decided to move into superheroes. There’s were also a few manga books tied into specific game releases but no US licenced comics for quite some time. This could change if Joe Madueira gets his…
He’s done gangbusters for DC Comics, taking C-list character Animal Man, whose return to the DC Universe from DC Vertigo had been lacklustre at best, and turned him into a surprise critical and commercial hit as part of the DC New 52. So it’s only natural that DC might tap him for any other bright…
I would assume that the success of The Lord of the Rings and the huge interest in The Hobbit, not to mention the extraordinary, eight-film success of the Harry Potter series, would encourage Warner Bros. to look seriously into all of their similar options, but the studio has not to move ahead with a long-developing…
